“Top 10 Tips on How to Make Your Open Access Research Visible Online” Published in Jisc Inform | Innovation Support Centre
abernard102@gmail.com 2012-12-14
Summary:
"The Jisc Inform Newsletter (issue 35, December 2012) features an article by Brian Kelly on Top 10 tips on how to make your open access research visible online. The tips were originally developed to accompany a series of presentations given at the universities of Exeter, Salford and Bath during Open Access Week. These presentations were based on the experiences gained in use of social media to help maximise access to peer-reviewed publications. In particular the tips documented the experiences of use of social media services such as blogs, Twitter and Slideshare to help maximise the readership of a paper entitled 'A Challenge to Web Accessibility Metrics and Guidelines: Putting People and Processes First'. As a reminder, here are the ten tips: [1] Be pro-active [2] Monitor what works [3] Make it easy for readers [4] Don’t forget the links [5] Encourage feedback and discussion [6] Develop your network [7] Understand your social media network [8] Know your limits in the social media environment [9] Seek improvements [10] Participate!
The article expands on these tips slightly, but doesn’t address the limitations which will be inevitable when seeking to provide advice in the form of ‘top tips’. However the tips are themselves extensible and, as described in tips 6, 7 and 8 you will need to Understand your social media network; Know your limits in the social media environment and Seek improvements."